"I will sleep on the floor you can sleep on the bed."
Venelope and jay were fighting over who will sleep on the floor.
"My lady, don't make it hard for me… you take the bed I will take the floor…"
"No no this is not good… this is your house I should be the one taking the floor…"
"Ugh….girl…. in what language do you want me to tell you? I can take the floor go sleep on the bed…"
"But its…."
"Jay! For heaven's sake its ….! Its next day already! Look at the time!"
"Its already 12o clock?!" Jay asked innocently
Venelope pushed her on the bed, spread her blanket on the floor and lay down finally. Soon sleeps came into her eyes. And she couldn't see clearly because of the sleep.
"V… your apartment I really like it…"
"Hmm? Hmm…hmmm… "venelope tried to asnswer
"Are you sleep?"
"Hmm.."
"Are you listening to me?"
…
"I think you are sleep now…"
After a few minutes she again said softly near her ear…
"v… are you really sleep …? Or… just pretending? "
" FOR GOD SAKE JAY! You scared the shit out of meee…. I just lost my child!" Venelope suddenly took a turn and cried when she heard and saw jay right next to her on the floor smiling back at her.
"You had a child!" Jay sat up on the blanket with surprise in eyes.
"Nooo… it's a metaphor…"venelope said while holding her head.
"So you didn't lose a child?"
"YEAH ...."
"Then whose child were you talking about …"
"Yours! I was talking about your child! Now go to sleep… QUIETLY!"
…. Venelope lay down again and covered her head with the blanket.
Jay lay down right next to her. Looking up at the ceiling and smiling.
"I don't have a child… you must be dreaming I think..."
"JAY!"
Jay giggled as she heard muffled voice from the blanket and soon sleep took her away too.
Next morning she woke up to the sizzling sound of the oil and clinking of the pots and ladles.
She woke up and saw an unrecognizable surrounding and looked around her.
"Where am i?"
"What is this… she looked at her cloths."
Then she looked down.
"I am sleeping on the floor?!"
It was a cozy looking small apartment. With a room a bath and a living room with an open kitchenette.
"Ah… I was with venelope"… she remembered while massaging her temples. She was having a headache.
Before she could think more, venelope's voice cut through her thread of thoughts and called, "jay I am here… fresh up and come out."
"Venelope?" Jay was still not wake. She was scratching her head and tried to get up from the floor. But as she got on her knee and other leg on foot, her foot slipped and she fell on her face.
THUD….
Venelope ran into the room and fell into a deep laughter, holding her stomach and clearing her tears.
"Don't laugh! get me up!" Jay cried with pain
Venelope went up to her and tried to pick her up…
"Aooo.. ouch… ufff… ugh…. "
Her back was strained from sleeping on the floor and now her face had bumped into the floor, bruising her chin.
"Come here let me put a pain patch and cover this bruise! Otherwise your parents will kill me!!! I told you to sleep on the bed! Now how are you feeling now? Must be feeling good right?! Must be feeling cool down the throat now!"
Venelope pulled jay to sit on the couch.
"Why are you scolding me! I am injured!"
"And whose fault is that?!"
"Mine!? "
"Is it mine then!?"
Jay gave a sheepish smile. Offering her face to her to get the antiseptic on her chin.
"don't act innocent with me! Damn its mine…its all my fault I shouldn't have bought you to my home!"
"hey…don't scold me, " jay was acting coy trying to cool her anger.
"Stop this! go wash your hands, and see there is disposable toothbrush there in the cabinet, take that! And be quick I have made the breakfast it will go cold."
Jay sat on the couch looking at venelope in a beige apron cooking something in the kitchen, and working in all that smoke coming out of the pots and pans, looking like the perfect picture of a luxury life.
"What a rosy life…jay exclaimed silently while looking at her."
"What? Did you say something?"
"Nah… just …rosy life... nothing… "jay put her chin her hand as she looked at venelope feeling solace and calm.
"UGH…" she forgot she had just injured her chin earlier and as soon as she put her face on her head all her fantasy turned into painful cry.
"What happened NOW!" Venelope ran over to her… ladle still in her one hand and salt in other hand…
"What happened…" she cried.
"Nothing I just forgot I had hit myself." Jay said with a painful giggle, her eyes were shut with pain.
"JAY MILLER!" she couldn't help herself but laugh at her and be angry at her at the same time.
Jay suddenly pulled venelope by her apron towards herself and hugged her tightly by her waist.
"MS. JAY MILLER … I AM STRAIGHT! LET GO OF ME!"
Jay hid her face in her apron, "i wish you were my mother…"
Venelope's raised hands dropped lower, she didn't know what to say …then to normalize the situation she cried, "if I had a kid like you, believe me I would beat the shit out of her every day!"
"Now let go of me! Be ready" she said in between laughs.
Jay slowly loosen her grip around her waist and let her go and simply nodded, venelope felt as if she had done something to hurt her. But thought to not to ponder over that and said, "be quick I am pouring the food into the dishes, be quick."
Jay stood up and again a painful cry escaped her lips, but now the pain was in her back due to sleeping on the hard floor.
She barely made it to the bathroom, took out the tooth brush, applied the toothpaste and put it in her mouth. Then opened the tap and cleaned her face without removing the antiseptic on her bruise then gargled and went out.
"You said, you are pouring the food in the dishes!"
"Yes… yes almost done … just a few more minutes!"
Jay sat on the kitchen counter looking at venelope working like a robot here and there.
"where are you sitting, go sit over there", she pointed to the dining table.
"Nah I want to sit here."
"My counter wont be able to bear your weight, Lady!"
"You are saying I am overweight!"
"nah... i dare not say... I didnt say anything, !" she said with her hands raised over her head, gesturing to spare her.
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